Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# podcast
If you really want to understand space, you need to understand black holes. Although, to be fair, understanding them is still very much a work in progress…
# space
The Event Horizon Telescope’s image of M87* is so good that theorists thought it was too good to be true.
# astrobiology
A star named V883 Ori is going through a growth spurt, and as it does, it’s showing us just how abundant the building blocks of life might be throughout the universe.
# space
A recent paper imagines a new explanation for the strange motions of Trans-Neptunian Objects observed by astronomers for the last 200 years, but it doesn’t mean that we won’t still search for Planet Nine.
# space
Saturn’s rings are young and might be gone almost as quickly as they appeared in planetary terms, according to the latest research by NASA.
# space
Black holes aren’t just the densest, most massive objects in space. They might also be some of the fastest.
# space
It turns out that one of the oldest objects in the known universe is only a few thousand light years from Earth.
# space
A new paper about the bizarre interstellar visitor to our solar system says it may well be a lost alien spacecraft. But there’s a big snag with that idea...
# space
Despite their fearsome reputation, we simply wouldn't exist without black holes.
# oddities
Flat Earthers don't seem to realize that their theory violates basic laws of physics.